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...favor of a constitutional monarchy. But critics have assailed the new democratic values, saying they encourage people to do whatever feels right, regardless of the consequences: dump the Prime Minister, take a bribe, kiss your partner before marriage. Indeed, corruption scandals plague the current government of Girija Prasad Koirala. If the monarchy were still absolute, the critics griped, then the traditional values would prevail...
...Nepal's former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala received a checkup at Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center in April 1994 after collapsing for the second time in six weeks...
Bell has advocated human rights in the past, but does not know how effective the appeal for Koirala's release would be, he said yesterday. Bell said, "Countries may be responsive to pressures of this kind" because of the recent attention given to the human rights issue...
Gershman said he is confident that the appeal will have a direct benefit on the release of Koirala...
Archibald Macleish, an associate of Leverett House and a well-known poet, is also concerned with Koirala. He sent a letter to the Nepalese government earlier this year urging Koirala's release...